My Journey

Jo_R_2

Spreadsheets still confusing me Sal, my own fault for looking at them at this time of night - tis only time last two days I've managed to have some proper computer time to have a go with them!

I'll reply properly tomorrow as am sooooooo tired *yawns*

bevan840

Morning Jo, I hope you managed to get a little sleep

Well, after another dilema (sp?) with more rumours about Landlords business going under, which yet again, it isn't!! We've decided that instead of putting the extra cash from my last payment in Sept into the Honeymoon fund, we're going to add it to the money going into the moving budget! I am soooo fed up of this happening every other month it is getting beyond a joke! It is doing nothing good for my health and I am starting to fear going home as I never know what I'm going home to! We went to a little village I've been looking at since before we moved, and it was just like being at home in Cornwall (Except my Mum doesn't live around the corner hehe) Loads of green fields, horses and cows in those fields, smallish village, very quiet and peaceful and only about 10 minutes from where we currently live Although the house that is on rightmove has been there since I first started looking so not sure if it's gone or something wrong with the house that no-one has rented it, so need to raise about £1000 ASAP! so that we can get out of this house and somewhere I can finally relax knowing that we aren't going to hear anymore rumours!

Got £8.10 on scratch at the moment, so another few weeks and I can withdraw another £10

Ummmm cant think of much else at the moment

Jo_R_2

SOA looking good, think groceries prob realistic if kids round when DH is back, mobile phones quite :eek: - are you on contract? I am on PAYG after a baaaaaaaad contract experience a few years ago and top up £10 a month with Tesco and once that runs out...

Good contents is sorted - reminds me I need to do mine too still:o

Hope you get sorted soon - I couldn't comment as I wouldn't know what to say (worried about saying wrong thing etc) but I hope things become clearer and you feel better soon x

bevan840

Hi Jo

The mobile bill for last month was actually more than £70!! Was a shock for me to, if we stick to our calling plans its more like £50 but my Money Monkey (What Orange call the people who handle Best Plans) said that on average I send around 300 texts a month so I dropped my text amount from Unlimited to 300, then sent 427 texts last month!!!! :eek: So that was £20 extra on top of bill :rotfl: I'm making sure I don't go over this month by ringing 150 every other day to see how many I have left and ring DH more instead of texting him! lol He's my magic number and vice versa so phone calls between us are free, quite handy when he spends so much time away from home. He'll be off again this Sat till Wed and work are being awkward about telling him what his days off are this week so he can let the XW know when he can have the boys, at this rate he wont see them as she may have something planned for them on the days that DH could of had them if his work would get their a*ses into gear!!! :mad:

Hope your ok x

bevan840

Right, update on Dr's appointment (sorry, I know it's a day late) The Dr thinks it could be 1 of 2 things:
1. Extremely slim chance I could be PG
2. Or it could be the anti sickness tablets I've been taking for 4yrs and suddenly now they've decided to give me the 'rare' side effect!!
So, I have bloods tomorrow, DH coming with me as last time I had blood I collapsed and I don't fancy driving if it happens again! I have pre-warned DH and was wishing I hadn't not long after, he keeps looking at my tummy as if something is about to jump out of it and when we were playing he stopped and said 'You shouldn't be bending like that' !!!!! :mad: It is an extremely slim chance as DH had a vasectomy but comments like that are showing that he is doing exactly what I told him NOT to do, I don't want him getting his hopes up as it will more than likely be negative.
I did have a chat with the Dr about how I could get PG with DH and he said that it would have to be helped, so I'm assuming IVF. He did say that he could refer me to the Gynie's and Fertility people at the hospital but we'd get over this hurdle first. I don't think I am, I don't think the Dr think's I am but he needs to rule it out as definite so we'll see what happens tomorrow

On a financial front we're still in the black I've got in contact with the Estate Agents about the house we like the look of. On Rightmove and their own website it was up as £375 pcm, it is actually £340 but in a bad state. Needs new kitchen and bathroom and lick of paint. The owner is supposed to be putting money into the house to get it done but they haven't heard from him since April!!! :eek: They are trying to find out what's happening and if they can get the keys off the contractor he hired to do the work to see if we can have a look around. I've done another spreadsheet seperate to my normal one just to see how things would work out with the rent/deposit etc etc and although we would be in the red at first as it wouldn't be rent a week and it would have to be in advance we will actually be saving money We pay £112 a week at the moment which makes roughly £450, so we are saving £110 a month!!!! If we were to get this place and we spend the same amounts as we do now on things like water, tax, etc etc then I could pay both CC's off by the end of NEXT YEAR!!!!!! :j So we're still looking for other places just in case but that village would be perfect!! It was lovely.

Nowt else to report today, feeling really off today, headache and just a generally 'unwell' feeling so hoping it's just brain working overtime worrying about tomorrow, not worried about the test, worried about me collapsing again as it leaves me completely drained and I have to come to work

Never mind, happy thoughts will get me through the day x

Jo_R_2

I sympathise - I'm the same when having blood taken, not a nice prospect!

House sounds good re: lower rent and nice place. Beware though about landlord not being in touch with agents - my experience tells me having a landlord that's around and about when you need them is priceless - it put us off one house when the tenants who were moving out said the landlord was a nice chap but took ages to sort out any work that needed doing if he even got round to it at all. Tread carefully - of course it might be fine and he might just be v. busy!

Hope you are feeling reasonably okay, it sounds like a lot to be thinking about both physically and emotionally so here you go, have some of these weirdy hugs! :grouphug:

bevan840

Right, listy for today

• Get photo's done for Driving Licence, finally sending it away to get name changed *Done, now just need to post it*
• 2 loads of washing *1 hung out, other still in machine, hang it out after posted this *
• Ironing *mountain, oh help*
• Get petrol *CBA to drive to town for petrol so will do it on way home from work tomorrow*

Thank you for the weirdy hugs They really are quite weird aren't they :rotfl:

Update on Dr
Had PG test, negative, knew it, thankfully I'm feeling ok about it as I knew it would be so didn't get my hopes up, DH on the other hand............... silly muppet, blames himself because he got the snip, my response is I married him willingly knowing I may not have children, but it can be possible with a little help
DH away till Wed so weekend and house to myself with no-one doing my head in

Hello to Lors if your lurking :hello:

I've taken the comments on board about the missing landlord, makes sense really Had a phone call from them yesterday just to let me know they were still trying to contact him :eek: So if I ever get to view the property I will be asking a loooong list of questions, first is if something goes wrong can the Estate Agents fix it or does it have to come from the Landlord, Mum came up with it and I was going to ask similar A few houses for sale in the same village but unsure of how difficult it would be for first time buyer with no deposit might discuss that with one of them as well It's not so much that he's busy thats the problem, I think it's more to do with the fact he lives in France and doesn't seem too bothered about his property. The lady at the EA actually told me that they had told him that either he updated the kitchen and bathroom or they would take the property off the books!!! Obviously he agreed but what's happened since then nobody knows. First months rent would be free too so all we'd need to find is £340 deposit and £250 EA fee. Sorted it in the spreadsheet that if we moved in beginning of Oct we'd be in Overdraft for a week I think but that would be it Obviously if we moved later would be better moneywise as well Fingers crossed that something good happens

Hope you've enjoyed your holiday SH
Hope you and family are ok Jo
And welcome again to Lors, hope the spreadsheets aren't confusing you too much
xxx

ETA Hit £10 yesterday and todays scratches took me over so have withdrawn £10 again Yay

bevan840

Marvellous Monday ~ Living room, Hall and Stairs
Level One
Level Two
Wipe and water plants, dust and deweb
Level Three
Clear and wipe window sills, and any electricals and picture frames etc
Empty and clear out a cupboard.. *Desk drawer*
Extras

1. binbag dance
2. Wipe the paintwork and bannisters
3. Wash any windows that have been neglected
4. Clean out cat tray

Personal List

• Find 200 out of 850 photo's for Wedding Scrapbook

Right, back to flying Not got much left to do so will try and get them done soon Might even get a star

Not much new to mention, feeling a little better today although didn't sleep very well how that works I have no idea! Gained 20p off daily scratch, thank you clams Still haven't heard anything from BP :mad: going to send another email as I cant use it as I didn't sign myself up to it so don't know the password!! Rotten bug*ers who used my email address, but then I've never received any emails to say 'Thank you for signing up' etc etc So am still confused!! lol (Nowt new there I know )

Yesterdays List
Get photo's done for Driving Licence, finally sending it away to get name changed *Done, now just need to post it*
2 loads of washing *both were hung out *
Ironing *mountain, oh help* **Mountin has been conquered(sp?)**
Get petrol *CBA to drive to town for petrol so will do it on way home from work tomorrow*

So, Todays List

• Post driving licence
• Get petrol on way home
• Endure another lovely BH at work Even the sun is shining, if I'd had the day off it would o been raining!
• Seal up old haribo tub so it can be our £2 tub Sealing it as DH pinched the £2 coins we already had!!! :eek: Was not a happy bunny when I found out they had gone!
• Update spreadsheet *No need, everything the same*

A lot of old vehicles going through town this morning, seen 5 old buses (and I mean OLD) and a few old cars too, must be an old vehicle day somewhere, DH and boys would of loved it!

savingholmes

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=155

The disability forum page

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1898605

Fibromyalgia / CFS type thread

There's a clue to who my sis is on my diary LOL.......

HI Bevan - sounds like you are still doing really well. I would defo be careful of that landlord tho....

bevan840

Good morning everyone, turning out to be a nice one too for the moment, sunshine (not helping the painful eyes) and blue skies. Started yesterday with a little headache which developed into full blown migraine by 4pm, not nice trying to drive home then having to cook, eart, dishes and wash out cat tray, even better we had a cracker of a thunderstorm!!! Would of been great if didn't already have the mother of all migraines, trying to talk to DH on the phone was a case of every sentence telling him to talk quietly as just moving my head caused pain, still got headache now but not as severe and will be taking my strong tablets to kick it today Have also stopped taking the anti sickness tablets the Dr gave me last week as I think they are the cause of the headaches!

Anyways, yesterdays list

• [STRIKE]Post driving licence [/STRIKE]*Done *
• Get petrol on way home *Didn't do as wanted to get home asap, might leave it till end of the week when I get my next lot of petrol money*
• [STRIKE]Endure another lovely BH at work Even the sun is shining, if I'd had the day off it would o been raining![/STRIKE] *Endured but not very well :rotfl:*
• [STRIKE]Seal up old haribo tub so it can be our £2 tub Sealing it as DH pinched the £2 coins we already had!!! :eek: Was not a happy bunny when I found out they had gone! [/STRIKE]*Sealed and has the first £2 coin in *
• [STRIKE]Update spreadsheet [/STRIKE]*No need, everything the same*

So for today

• Update[STRIKE] spreadsheet and [/STRIKE]siggy with new numbers
• [STRIKE]Update diary with August spends and Grocery Challenge[/STRIKE] *Done*
• [STRIKE]Remember to take tablets at lunch time[/STRIKE] *Remembered*
• Book Vet for Gizmo *5:40 tonight*
• Do a little flying at some point before bed depending on how head is

Gizmo not very well at the moment and unsure as to why, I think he is a bit 'bunged up' kept going to the tray last night and was crouching as if he wanted to go, but did nothing. I rang Mum and we thought it might of been because of the thunderstorm and to see what he was like this morning, and he's still doing it this morning Rang Vets to get an appointment and lovely lady on the phone told me I should be at home watching him, I would love to be home to keep an eye on him but I don't get paid for staying at home. Told Mum and DH and they both said to ignore her, he will be fine till tonight hope so, doesn't stop me feeling guilty that he's poorly and I'm not there.